bash -c behavior

Tue Feb 28 03:58:00 GMT 2006

On 2006年2月27日, Poor Yorick wrote:
> Greetings, Cygwin users,
>> From a terminal:
>> yorick@yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:43:48
> $bash -c "echo 1ドル" yada
>> yorick@yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:43:52
> $bash -c "echo $*" bright sunshiny day
>> yorick@yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:45:54
>> Shouldn't I have gotten some results on stdout?

Try
$ bash -c 'echo 1ドル' bash yada
$ bash -c 'echo /0ドル/ $*' a bright sunshiny day
A perusal of the "quoting" section of the bash man page might be
particularly instructive.
HTH,
	Igor
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